On Sunday 05 April 2009 9:31:17 pm Doran L. Barton wrote:
> On Sunday 05 April 2009 20:56:18 Hans Fugal wrote:
> > You shouldn't be using something as weak as passwords for logging in
> > remotely as root anyway. Key-based authentication is much better *and*
> > more convenient.
>
> Or, better yet, don't log in remotely as root, period. In
> /etc/ssh/sshd_config:
>
>       PermitRootLogin no
>
> It's one of the first things I do on just about any Linux box.

Couldn't you get around that quite easily by logging in as a normal user then 
running "su"?
-- 

Jessie Morris



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